On the fateful night of December 4, Monday, when a nation of 1.3 billion people and cinema lovers across the globe were mourning the death of one of Bollywood’s greatest actors Shashi Kapoor, BBC was left red-faced after its careless reportage. The media giant aired clips of Amitabh Bachchan and Rishi Kapoor in their segment News at Ten hosted by Huw Edwards while announcing the demise of 79-year-old Shashi Kapoor.

The segment showed a clip of Amitabh Bachchan from Kabhie Kabhie and the next one showed Rishi Kapoor dancing with a guitar.

The channel did not show Shashi Kapoor’s face even once, a fact that has not escaped social media’s notice. The presenter and the team did not care enough to cross-check and know more about Shashi Kapoor, who along with featuring in over 150 Indian films, had also appeared in English movies like Shakespeare Wallah and Pretty Polly.

Twitter users made sure BBC paid for their rare ‘journalistic error’ and slammed the channel for its ignorance. Not only Indians, the barrage of criticism for BBC’s lax reportage came from many around the globe.

Here are a few tweets slamming the sheer ignorance of BBC:

Lack of knowledge & research…if you dont know the news in and out dont telecast….reporting standards should be strict and punishable

One Twitter users said BBC should introduce cultural diversity in their newsroom to ensure these mistakes didn’t happen again:

I was sitting there thinking “why the hell are they showing classic footage of Amitabh @SrBachchan“….and then realised that the person responsible for obituaries @BBCNews may indeed not be able to tell the difference…